The Ayawaso East Munici­pal Assembly has presented items to 25 persons living with disability (PWDs) within the municipal.

The items include 18 refrigera­tors, one laptop, one electric sew­ing machine, one electric knitting machine, and a poly tank.

The items were presented to the beneficiaries by the head of Social Welfare Department, Ms Winifred Lydia Mensah-Bonsu, on behalf of the Ayawaso East Municipal Assembly.

The Nima Zone Council Chair­man, Mr Umar Sanda Mohammed, speaking at the ceremony in Accra, said the Disability Fund Support Programme was one of the social interventions of the government that seeks to improve the so­cio-economic life of the disabled by assisting them in establishing their own businesses.